Being one of the RoM CB players there and watching how it immediately turned to a item shop game like Atlantica Online level (I know Atlantica launched years later, just saying) or worse, I stepped back from buying a founders package.

I'm waiting for answers to my questions about the housing system mechanics and would like to know if they will add dragons in the item shop.

If they start adding dragons, equips with stats and such items in the item shop then I'll definately won't play this game, nor will I ever recommend it to anyone.

As about Beta Access, I have applied a code and the bar has me still in the lowest status of consideration (end of the bar) out of 5 possibilities.

This alone shows that with a beta code you end up at the rear end, with spend money and depending on the amount you spent, you are between the 1st to the 4th "level" of consideration.

Even I understand that they are a business and need to make money to exist, such a approach makes the game less appealing and most of all raises the feeling that the game will be very item shop heavy.

I hope it won't cause it sounds quite interesting and I would really like to try it out and even play it (I love good housing and pet based systems), but I think we will have to wait and see how it turns out.

Originally posted by Dihoru
Had a similar issue back when I was playing AoC (pre-crafting remake) and I shot off a ticket/e-mail to their support explaining what was happening, fixed within 2 days, free player.

One of my main issues as I stated was that my account seemed to be active  on the site but it would still not let me go in game.

My Anarchy Online account (was in its betas back then) and my TSW accounts were also active.

Waited after the second ticket and nothing happen again.

So I went into my account, changed my details, (Address and stuff that were actually already there) and saved my profile.

Then retried to login and it worked. -.-

It's really beyond me what happened there cause my details were in my profile for years and even after 2 tickets I never received any help.

Don't know if anyone else had the same issue down the line but in case someone might have, just try to change your profiles details like street, country  etc. and save (you can redo after to add them back).

It should work after that. :) 

Originally posted by Tinybina

Originally posted by Amjoco

 Wait! Guild Wars 2 Doesn't Suck?

 

 

This video pretty much summed up my feelings for the game.  Well except for me paying to continue to play it.

I am not saying this game is complicated, but they need to do a MUCH better job with the tutorial.  I should not have to log into youtube or find a guide to start understanding how some things work in the game.

Add that to the fact that the game just doesn't FEEL right for some reason and I just can't see myself paying 60 bucks to continue to play this game.  

They seriously need to listen to what the maker of the above video say's.  I really do believe they are losing a lot of potential subscribers due to some of the issues he brought up.  While he did stay, I just can't see this pulling me away from Planetside 2 (my current MMO) and trust me I SOOOOO wanted to be pulled away from Planetside 2....

 

Thank you MMORPG.COM and ArenaNet for the oppurtunity to try Guildwars 2 out.

Erm... you probably meant buyers?

There are no subscriptions in GW2 after all. :)

You buy once and play as much as you want and whenever you want.

What many people fail to see like the OP obviously too is that this game is build upon choices and everything in the game has them.

So saying the quests are like rifts or a copy of them is definately not true.

In GW 2 all the heart quests are having 3-4 different options on completing them.

As example, while you are fighting against works, I'm feeding the cows, while someone else is taking care of the plants or is doing anything else.

This alone makes the game more flexible than others cause people get to pick out of 3-4 options to finish a heart quest instead of having to do the same thing everyone else has to.

The world is wide open and waits to get explored, its up to us to explore it the way we want it.

That's something most of us weren't used to for many years so it might feel akward to some or give the feeling to some that they are "lost" because there is no guideance like it was in the previous mmos we played.

That's where you open your map and see the possibilities and that's where you start exploring the game to learn more from it and find what is more fun for you to play with.

Some people love to explore around and find secret places, others can't get enough from jumping puzzles, others rather are looking forward to complete the maps (secret places are extra btw), others jump immediately in the pvp or wvswvsw, others hunting events down or gathering materials so they can immediately begin with crafting. 

Originally posted by DaSpack

Nice writeup of QQ. Sounds like you started off with the game on the wrong foot.. TERA have something going on now.. like a F2P offer or something, try that one out.

If you still wanna play with the big boys.. PM me on the Wiccana server.

"Nice" reply filled with immaturity.

It showcases two things:

1) you didn't care to read properly, otherwise you wouldn't say to someone that CAN'T enter the game to PM you in game

2) how "good" you are towards people with legitimate problems

Thanks for "trying" though.

At least I know now which server I should avoid in case I EVER make it into the game. :p

As about Tera, Thanks but no Thanks!

I was one of the closed beta players there and quit in the very first day.

A day filled with killing of trees, "Bunnies" among other things you needed to kill 10, 20, 50, 70 from till your eyes started to bleed.

Originally posted by Dreskest

Originally posted by Raekon

Originally posted by Mdpats
Of course they are still supporting the game. If they weren't they would be throwing away lots of whatever money they put into it.

I've submitted support tickets and get responses the very next day

Happy you got lucky with that.

I only checked back now to see what happened to this thread and to confirm that I will indeed uninstall the client now.

It is the second marz and I still got no replies from their support upon my issue.

The weakest and worst support I ever experienced in a company/game and I have tested and played over 400+ mmos so far (in two betas again right now).

Truly sad what they are doing with their customers and too bad for a game with a lot of potential.

So what exactly are they doing to their customers that is truly sad ? I've been a paying customer for 3 years in AoC and have never had any issues with the game or with customer support. Even now that Funcom is going through heavy restructuring, they have answered all my feedback emails promptly in both AoC and TSW within 48 hours. Not sure about AO because I haven't logged in for a while.

 

So assuming that your claims are true, I think it's clear you are a very unlucky customer and definitely not the norm (people in my guild have never talked in chat about any serious problems with the game or CS), but I wouldn't discard that you're just trolling either.

So I guess that's also the main difference here and the reason why I never heard back from them.

You are a PAYING customer, I choose the FREE option at first so I can check the game and see if I like it enough to spend money on it.

It's the 19th April and I still NEVER got a reply from them.

I went and downloaded the Steam Version from my steam account two weeks ago, I installed it, went till the login screen and ended up to have the same issue.

It won't let me authentificate and enter the game.

So when I got the option that lead me to the official site, I logged in on the site(always works), my account there is active and everything looks fine.

I go back to the game and again the same issue, it won't let me login.

Account is ok, informations and everything say I should be able to enter the game but the game won't let me in.

Wrote to the support two weeks ago, didn't heard a word from them again.

Same treatment.

I guess they are waiting till I select a payed subscription before they let me in but if they think that they can rip me off this way, then they better think twice.

That type of behaviour shows only one thing in my opinion and that's unprofessionalism.

Originally posted by Purutzil

GW1, though yeah... bit silly to compare that way. Of the B2P models, GW2 (I feel) has the most Pay 2 Win model out there, just for the fact power is so limited so having that money (which can directly be bought in game) is quite a big advantage.  Its bareable mind you, but its definently one thats on the iffy side for me and with the way its set up with WvW kind of benefiting from buying seige tools, it does feel that way. Yes you can earn it in game, but to me being able to BUY ease is always P2W to a degree, even in games I enjoy like Aion or Tera with just even exp boosts, GW2 just pushes it that much more.

 

I just can't appreciate its 'model' when it directly offers IN GAME GOLD which has more purpose then ever from other MMos to determining the ability of your character or who will win WvW. Not the worst model but its definently not one I'd inspire others to want to follow.

As for GW2 having more... eh... not really... but hey if you enjoy what it DOES have, theres no real reason to argue against it. Diablo 2 literally had very little to go about doing (repeating acts a dozen times) but I had a place with less content to do and had a blast with it compared to other games I could of played.

- you can have as much gold as you want and you won't be able to win WvWvW

- you can buy blueprints or even get them for free by doing the jumping puzzles in the battlegrounds

- even with tons of blueprints you can't win cause you need to have the supply needed to build them and enough people with you to use them

- if a side ends up being the underdog, they are getting a NPC general that is helping them to strike back and grab a tower by leading them, spawning siege weapons and a dolyak that keeps giving them supply while defending them with invulnerabilty till the building of the weapons is done

So what you are saying when it comes to this and the P2W which isn't even existant in this game, is ridicoulos and doesn't make any sense.

GW2 is indeed a very rich game when it comes to the features, maybe you should go through them before you keep typing missinformations of something you probably didn't even play?

- Diablo 2 or the whole series is a hack & slash dungeon crawler and not comparable to any mmo.

If you had a blast with it, I'm honestly happy for you but this has nothing to do with GW2  lacking features or the topic itself.

A few things in general:

- people that say that this game is not community friendly should ask themselves why they are not more communicative towards others, instead of blaming a game that is giving them the freedom of choice for interaction, instead of forcing them to interact with others by hindering their progress like other games do.

- a LFG tool was in the game since the beginning, people mostly aren't using it because they don't like that it's more optional then in other games

- WOW didn't started the LFG tools, nor did it had one first

As about the B2P method I'm all for it.

Started in GW1 in its first world preview in 2004, got into the closed betas and started immediately.

Stayed for 5+ years, then dropped in once in a while without worrying and even went back last year to finish my hall of monuments stuff so I can grab all the rewards I wanted in GW2.

Played GW2 a few months, then only occassionaly (still do).

The game is still fun and with everything that is being added overtime even more.

That's also it's main beauty, it doesn't only offer lots of stuff to do, it also gives me the freedom to take a pause and jump back in whenever I want again with no worry that :

"I payed my monthly subscription without playing the whole month" OR "can't do X content because I don't have this armor or this weapon or this rank or this certain build or certain party members".

Things that are sure to come our way I'm looking forward to:

- Giuld Halls

- Housing

- More Mini Games

All their events were a blast so far and the "Super Adventure Box" is one of its kind (Loved It!). 

I started in the first CB of this game, in the second CB they started ruining everything with the stamina system. Tons of people already left.

Third CB  and open beta came and got used to the stamina limitations till we found out that after a certain level, you can't progress without the Item Mall.

They kept selling power more and more in lucky boxes and got really greedy till more people left.

Then they dropped the stamina but the damage was done already.

Most of all since in the meantime they also started making mercenaries Item Mall exclusives, adding even higher stats in the mounts, wings with active/passive skills additionaly making the game even more unbalanced.

I quit in the beginning of 2011 already and only jumped in occassionaly to say hi to the friends I had there (almost none of them there anymore except of 2 - 3).

Ridicoulos prices at the market, ridicoulos item mall, parts of the game heavily dependable on the item mall in PvE, materials for higher level armors that are really needed if you wanna have a chance to progress, still very rare and the unbalance continues now with two overpowered mains introduced.

Not to mention of the cut and paste story both got which is as creative as a brainfart. -.-

The main reason why this game is still alive is its turn based battle nature and because some people that invested tons of money and time can't let go.

Otherwise the game would had been dead a long time ago and the main reason why would be the greediness of its developers that started before even Nexon was a part of it.

Nexon became a part of Atlantica but Atlantica never got better, it's in its same bad state if not worse.

The most funny part of it all was, that I didn't read anything about it before cause I didn't follow the news lately.

So I logged in, hear the midi music at the character selection and the first thing I thought was "Huch? My soundcard or settings are acting up? Never had such a issue?".

So I'm checking my settings and they are fine, trying out other stuff, everything good, login back into GW2 and the midi music starts again. :p

So I thought "OH you litle bitches! You got me this time" :p

Then I went to the super adventure box (saw the message on the right side of the screen), saw the chests, music and stuff and was like" it can't be).

Then I'm going in with my party and we were all looking with wide eyes into the "old graphics" from back then, memories flooding my head, thinking "Awesome!". :)

Really couldn't believe it and immediately fell in love with it.

Too bad that it's limited, I wish it would stay as one of the "mini games" the game offers.

On the other hand though, it won't be as special anymore so I understand why its for a limited time only.

Jade Quarry was alive and kicking at any time of the day/night during the holidays.

I visited at least 3 main tows of the races and there were quite a lot people to be seen.

Lions Arch had less people than usuall but it was mainly because of WvsWvsW, Dungeons and the Adventure Box which is awesome in my opinion, grabbing a lot of the population.

Originally posted by calranthe

Well I decided to grab a copy of GW2 it should arrive later today, I looked through some forums and need some advice.

Let me explain something though, I am not interested in pvp be it duel or WVWVW, I am not really interested in end game or uber loot, play a mmo for the journey from level 1-max for social and roleplay, I also spend a lot of time leveling on my own.

I do not mind how broken a class is at end game or how its min/max dps etc works out less than another class what I am looking for is advice on the ability to solo, have fun and interesting gameplay, as per my title I also prefer pet class.

If I went to the subforums I would have to post three seperate times that is why I am posting it on general.

Okay on to the questions

Necromancer, are its pets more like mobile dots or do you have control of them, can you use commands like follow/attack etc, if you make a minion master type of build is it viable from 1-80

Ranger, how does its pet mechanic work and once again how viable if you focus on your pets 

Engineer, now I know it isn't a primary pet class but I do love the idea of putting down turrets etc even with the hassle of moving about, is it viable to create a turret build.

 

Is there anny other class that uses pets and any other advice that you can give me is gratefully recieved.

 

 

- Guardian has a few defensive summons like sword, shield and so on

- Necromancer has pets you can't command entirely but the pets itself have skills you can let them use like blinding enemies, rooting enemies, exploding on a enemy and so on. They come also with a Elite pet and the pets only dissappear after they lost all their health (not a time limit like with the summons of the other classes)

- Mesmers are using illusion pets, some are giving damage, others are only a distraction for the enemy and can be used in various ways after they spawned to add a status effect or damage on a enemy when you trigger them to destroy themselves on the enemy

- Engineer, the turrets are stationery but can be picked up again, the various kits like health kits, bombs, grenades are giving you extra skillsets that can be fun but petwise the turrets are also only controlable over a skill they posses like the minions of the Necromancer

- Elementalist, they have lesser and higher form of elementals they can summon for short times as also some elite pets they can summon for a short time aswell. The pets you are getting as elite depend on your race like Sylvari getting a huge tree spirit while the humans getting 2 hellhounds as example.

- Warrior, depending on the race you can call a worm, owl or a other creature to assist you in battle for a while

- Ranger, the only class that can actively let a pet attack, defend, be passive and follow or use a skill.

Every pet learns additional skills they use automatically in the battle too. A large pool of terrestrial, water or amphibic pets that are using different types of damage, status effects and so on.

Melee and Ranged types available.

You can have 2 active at a time and switch between them to combine their strengths in battle and if you command them properly they can survive battles and do a good amount of damage.

Hope that helps a bit. :)

Originally posted by Mdpats
Of course they are still supporting the game. If they weren't they would be throwing away lots of whatever money they put into it.

I've submitted support tickets and get responses the very next day

Happy you got lucky with that.

I only checked back now to see what happened to this thread and to confirm that I will indeed uninstall the client now.

It is the second marz and I still got no replies from their support upon my issue.

The weakest and worst support I ever experienced in a company/game and I have tested and played over 400+ mmos so far (in two betas again right now).

Truly sad what they are doing with their customers and too bad for a game with a lot of potential.

Originally posted by Vapors

maybe they blocked your account? or your accout got hacked and blocked after. Otherwise its a f2p game so any1 should be able to log in anywhere.

Supporters ingame and forums are actually active.

Unfortunally i can't answer any other question, since im not very active too.

That's unfortunately the main problem to.

How is someone supposed to reach them when the game doesn't let you login and the forums don't let you post AFTER you login in the forums?

Live chat doesn't work either so the only remaining option is the support ticket for such cases.

When they go and ignore these tickets however, no one can be helped and thats the whole problem. :/

Anyway, thanks a lot for trying to help me, is very appreaciated. :)

Originally posted by DaSpack
dude why not just fcking open new account. It's not like  you payed them anything in the first place...

Because my TSW and my AO accounts are there aswell?

I have a account there for many years and to answer the further questions of those that probably didn't read my first post properly:

- my account is not blocked

- I can login on the site and in the forums which means that both are set

- already mentioned that I even changed my forums password

Reconstruction or not, having no one helping for over a week after a FUNCOM ticket has been filled is out of place.

Most of all since such support tickets are getting to the general support instead of being game related, that means that it doesn't even have to do with AoC anymore but with their whole support.

Funny also how unprofessional suggestions taking place by have a message on the site telling you how to contact the IN GAME support while in the game, when you can't even enter the game in the first place.

From what I read in the forums there are a lot of issues unsolved and no one cares to help all these people that can't login in the game including me.

The Authentification issue pops in, in various ways as it seems.

In others peoples cases they drop from the game and can't get back at all anymore cause after it popped up the first time, they are blocked. The solution of "login 15 minutes later or much later" doesn't help them.

Others crush everytime they are going in the character screen.

With so many people locked out, I'm wondering if there are any in the game at all anymore. 

Anyway, I left the game on my HD for now and will wait and see if they will EVER contact me or help me at all.

Should they not react for another week, then they can rest assured that they lost another customer and that I won't touch any of their games anymore cause enough is enough.

I think waiting for 2 weeks is more then fair enough.

In other companies cases you are getting the first response within an hour or  between the first 24 hours and 3 days as the longest response time.

Hi guys!

Like the title says, I'm not sure if they do anything about this game anymore cause the live chat always gives me this:

Live Chat is currently unavailable.

For assistance with in-game issues, please submit a petition in-game using /petition.

For any other questions, please contact us via our help portal at http://help.funcom.com.

The forums don't let me reply or start a new thread saying after I can actually login successfully:

A Message from the King !

 you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

 Which is bullshit since my account is there for ages and even after I changed my forums password I was able to login normally.

Not to mention that the game always gives me the Authentication Error Code (14) even my password is correct and my account is clearly active.

Funny and at the same time frustrating thing, it brings up the "Cancel or Account Management" and when I click on account management I can normaly use my password to login there and see that everything is alright.

I made a screenshot and sent it to them explaining the situation over a week ago.

Never got any replies (I checked my junk mail too).

So I have a activated account that doesn't let me to enter the game nor lets me post or reply in their forums.

Their live chat is always "unavailable at this time" and their support doesn't give a crap about the tickets they get.

Really saddening in my opinion and I think the best option will be to just uninstall the game and be done with it.

VERY happy that I didn't selected the premium or I would probably have even more troubles.
 

I really don't understand why people have to be negative upon everything and that's not matter if it's GW2 or anything else really.

The devs promised a february update and we are getting one at the 26th.

They prevent us from having a buggy WvsWvsW by pushing back the WvsWvsW extra content so we can enjoy it without problems till they give us additional stuff and improvements a month later (maybe its even one week only instead of a month) and we still complain?

Would it be better to get bugs and unpolished extras added that would even break what we have so far, making WvsWvsW eventually totally broken?

Also find it funny that people that "quit playing for weeks/months" or whenever, feel the need to come back here and start bashing the game whenever possible.

Don't you people have anything else to do or any other game to go play instead?

I'm really wondering....

I love the independance the GW2 system offers and delivers.

What I hated in the holy trinity system that some posters probably forgetting was:

- the exclusion of people if they didn't fit a certain role

- the blame game 24/7 either on someone that wasn't "good enough" in his role or people that always blamed others to cover their own mistakes

- the waiting like several hours to get the right people together and disband after without being able to do content only because you couldn't get the people together that you needed

- elitism of the people which is much more present in trinity based games

- having a type of skillset was a "must have"  cause if you didn't had it, you would be dropped from the party even if you class was fitting.

In GW2 we just took people in the group that asked for one, no matter what class they were and with good teamwork run dungeons, fractals, events without having to do "corpse runs".

So for me it's the hybrid system. :)

I'm totally excited about the guild quests! :)

They sound pretty good and unique so far (bounty hunt, gathering of stuff, defence and so on).

I really hope that guild halls are coming next and bringing training grounds and guild vs guild with them. :)

Unfortunately I didn't got to play the fire and ice so far so I need to catch up before the 26th february so I have the prologue to the follow up they will add. :)

The new pvp map sounds fun too so I'll probably give it a try.

Too bad that the WvsWvsW stuff is not in the update notes but who knows?

We might still get them. If not, then I'm sure that the stuff didn't worked as intented so they decided to rather leave them out then add something that causes issues and frustration.

Still looking forward to them though. 

Thanks a lot for the review. :)

I have followed ArcheAge since 2011 and was very excited about it.

Till I found out that it is based on open world pvp in which a high level can go to a level area and slaughter everyone only because they can. :(

This is a real deal breaker for me and a thing that prevents me from playing games like that.

As long as no limitations are set into place OR areas are free from the "I can slaughter you because I love bullying low levels" attitude of some OR a PvE server with area based Factions / Guild wars in place are there, I'll definately won't play this game.

Which is a huge shame cause I love crafting and building stuff. :/

From what I saw so far, it looks as if its a reboot of D&D Online launch a few years ago which ended up having people quitting left and right because all you could do was being in the same city, running to npc to grab a quest, go into a cellar, go back, rinse, repeat with the only difference that instead of a cellar you had also tunnels, partially caves (underground of the city) and such.

So people were missing outside areas a lot.

I don't know what came with the expansions later and after it turned to free to play cause I had quit after a few months and never looked back after.

However, as a huge fan of neverwinter nights, all its expansions and the included aurora toolset (loved modding with it back in 2000 and later!), I was totally looking forward to this mmo.

Not quite sure what I should make out of it yet but I think I'll wait and see how it unfolds before I'm gonna give any judgement.

One thing I can say is that Cryptic created one of the most unique and editable, original and the first ever super heroes mmo with city of heroes back in 2004 so I'm having a lot of faith in them alone when it comes to the editing tools cause the character editor, thebase editor and mission architect in City of Heroes/Villains were the best and the first of that nature a mmo ever had.

Actually more infos were added already about the prologue of the event and the changes as also the additions. :)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/january-2013/#new-features